Inside the church of Flannery O'Connor : sacrament, sacramental, and the sacred in her fiction / [print]
edited by Joanne Halleran McMullen and Jon Parrish Peede.
- first edition.
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2007.
- 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
Inside the church of Flannery O'Connor : an introduction Real presence : Flannery O'Connor and the saints The hylomorphic sacramentalism of "Parker's back" / Helen R. Andretta -- Flannery O'Connor and the displaced sacrament Beholding the handmaids : Catholic womanhood and "The comforts of home" / Robert Donahoo -- Flannery O'Connor and the cartoon catechism Partaking of the sacraments with Blake and O'Connor : a reading "The bottom rail is on the top" : race and "theological whiteness" in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction Christian but not Catholic : baptism in Flannery O'Connor's "The river" / Joanne Halleran McMullen -- The scandalous baptism of Harry Ashfield : Flannery O'Connor's "The river" / Ralph C. Wood -- Flannery O'Connor and the discernment of Catholic fiction Jon Parrish Peede -- W.A. Sessions -- John F. Desmond -- Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner -- Stephen C. Behrendt -- Timothy P. Caron -- John R. May.
"This book offers essays by leading scholars who have advanced the codification of O'Connor as a writer preoccupied with religious, and especially Catholic, theories. In counterbalance, the collection presents voices of sharp dissent. These scholars find themselves at odds with O'Connor's own interpretations and with much of the existing scholarship concerning her work." "The promise of such a diverse collection rests in the dialogues between and among their essays."--Jacket.
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2007012272
Christianity in literature. Sacraments in literature. Theology in literature. Christianity and literature--Southern States.